Dress-hook.



Mf R. STODDAR-D DRESS HOOK.

APPLIOATION FILED 00T. a, 1911.

1,069,352. Patented Aug. 5, 1913.

UNITED STATES PATENT GFFIC.

MAUDE R. STODDARD, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

'DRESS-HOOK.

To all whom i may concern:

Be it known that I, MAUDE R. STODDARD, a citizen of the United States, resident of New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dress-Hooks, of which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention being herein explained and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

My invention. relates to dress-hooks, its object being to provide a dress-hook which will be simple and eicient in its construction and economical of manufacture.

The said invention consists of means hereinafter fully described and particularly set forth in the claim.

The annexed drawing and the following description set forth in detail certain means embodying my invention, the disclosed means, however, constituting but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of my invention may be applied.

In said annexed drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view, on an enlarged scale, of a hook embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a plan of such hook, shown attached to a fragment of fabric.

The hook embodying my invention, and as illustrated in the drawing, consists of a single length of wire forming a base portion A and a tongue portion B. One end portion of the wire is bent to form an eye a, which is elongated in the transverse direction of the hook. After this eye has been formed, the wire is carried forward to form the intermediate portion a of the base portion A, whereupon it is bent to form a similar transversely elongated eye a2. After this eye has been formed, the wire is carried back and alongside the intermediate portion ci to form a second intermediate portion a3, after which it is passed under the inner portion of the eye zy upwardly, forwardly, back and then downwardly and under the said portion a, as shown in the drawing. That portion of the wire form- Speciiication of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 9, 1911.

Patented Aug. 5,1913.

Serial No. 653,619.

ing the forward end of the tongue is spread so as to widen the extremity of such tongue, whereby the latter is caused to be of spatulate form.

The body portion is made preferably to extend no farther forward than does the tongue B, whereby the length of the hook is a minimum. In this way, the forward eye a2 falls immediately below the end of the tongue, but being elongated, as shown, extends beyond the tongue laterally so that a needle may be readily passed therethrough without coming in contact with such tongue. By providing the transversely elongated form of eye, a maximum amount of lateral bearing surface of the hook is provided,

whereby a comparatively large number of stitches may be passed around same, thus securely holding the eye in place. By providing a single eye at each end, it will be seen that there is no tendency to spread the intermediate portions a and a3 of the body portion A, apart, the hook in this way tending to maintain, to the greatest extent possible, its normal form and outline.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is As a new article of manufacture, a dress hook consisting of a single length of wire bent so as to have one extremity form a single elongated eye, then extending from said eye to form an intermediate member of the base portion, then bent to form a second single, elongated eye, then return parallel with and adjacent to said intermediate portion, through said first named eye and back, and again returned to form the tongue inserting portion, the other extremity iirst passing through said first named eye and then back under a port-ion of the wire forming the base.

Signed by me, this 23rd day of August,

. MAUDE B. STODDARD. Attested by- GUY K. HARRISON, JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for iive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

